Thursday, January 19, 2012

recipe: sweet potato-smoothie!

photos my own

Friends, food-lovers and health freaks alike: I give to you the sweet potato pie as a smoothie, smoothie. I was talking with a customer at work about hemp milk (I'm a barista) and we started conjuring ideas on how to work with it. Somehow sweet potatoes got involved and..

a lá smoothie !

I swear this tastes like a pie... and I know you're thinking, HEMP milk, sweet potatoes, walnuts and a blender?... ew. But nooo, no no. This is surprisingly delicious and super healthy. You could also use vanilla almond or soy milk. Why add flaxseed? Omega-3's, baby! Decrease your risk of heart disease, stroke, good for your skin (again... I'm a nutrition major).

of course you'll be cooking the sweet potatoes first, so just throw a small (roughly 1/4 cup) of sweet potato cubes in boiling water for 20 minutes, more or less.

let them cool, or else your smoothie will be warm.

be sure that your walnuts are extremely finely chopped, getting chunks of walnut in the middle of your gulp might be annoying...

throw all of the ingredients in the blender (adding ice if you'd like)